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Start date: November 2012
Duration: 24 months
Website: www.marg-project.eu
Funding Scheme: FP7 Research
for the Benefit of SMEs
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 315296.
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ORGANIZATION NAME
COUNTRY
BHE Bonn Hungary Electronics Ltd.
Hungary
ON AIR Elektronikai Gyártó és Javító Kft.
Hungary
Geographica
Spain
PESSL Instruments GmbH.
Austria
Cantine D’Alfonso Del Sordo Srl.
Italy
Technische Universität Graz
Austria
Agenzia Regionale Per La Protezione Ambientale Del Piemonte
Italy
MET-ENV Fejlesztő és Szolgáltató Bt.
Hungary
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• Currently, the common methods to measure rainfall include the use
of rain gauges or long range weather radars.
• Rain gauges are used for direct measurement of rainfall intensity
near land.
• Long range weather radars work as very densely situated rain gauges, but
the price of these radars are not affordable for large part of the endusers, especially for Small- and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).
• To own and operate an individual rain gauge by an SME is highly
expensive.
• Participating SMEs of the MARG project realized that there is a clear need
for a cheaper and innovative measurement device.
• The MARG project aims to develop an accurate, real-time, price-sensitive
and user friendly rainfall measurement system.
• MARG will monitor spatial distribution and intensity of rain in rural and
urban scale for commercial weather data and value-added forecast
product suppliers.
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Scientific objectives:
- To develop a high resolution, low cost, short range precipitation radar system
- To identify rain type events using Doppler spectrum data
- To identify rain type events using morphological information of the radar rainfall maps
- To develop high grade clutter cancellation algorithm in order to eliminate scattering data on
stationary objects in the area
Business objectives:
- To realize a relatively lower commercial price than current solutions
- To realize a pre-competitive product that will enable participants to reach the targeted return
on investments
Training, dissemination and exploitation objectives:
- To train SMEs on functionality, operability, troubleshooting, maintenance, etc. of the system
- To disseminate the project at commercial, scientific, certification and on public platforms, and
to compile a European Best Practices Guild.
- To prepare Exploitation Plan to determine routs for protection and exploitation of Foreground
in line with post-project exploitation plans
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MFKK
www.marg-project.eu
marg@mfkk.hu
(06 1) 787 4024
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